The Tiny Bang Story for Android

The frustration outweighed the enjoyment in the end. Some puzzles were impossible to do on an Android without a home button because items were on the edge of the screen stuck beneath the grey swipe bar - I had to enable Guided Access to disable the bar and play the game. The items are so tiny that even with very small hands I had a lot of trouble placing them - you have to place items EXACTLY in place or tap them perfectly, but they’re the size of a fruit fly sometimes on an Android 12 mini. I know my phone is unusually small (specifically because I have such small hands!), but I’ve never played one of these games with such rigid requirements for grabbing and placing and other games play just fine on my phone. As a tip, aim exactly - for example, the boat puzzle you have to drag exactly from the pushpin to the other pushpin or it won’t connect correctly. The game isn’t always responsive to touch even in the right place, like being unable to easily pick up jigsaw pieces. I love digital jigsaw puzzles but wow this wasn’t fun, having to try several times to lock a piece in when it’s a few millimeters off. The computer games are also monotonous and painful to play, sitting for several minutes watching the plane tick one single square at a time across a screen. If you hit pause, it doesn’t pause, it takes you back to the home screen and you have to start over and watch the same plane tick, tick, tick. That happens with basically all minigames, so I had to restart the one building the train multiple times because I had to leave the game to look up how to disable the grey scroll bar to even reach some items, and it undid all my progress. It’s a cute game but I deleted it before finishing the final world. I’ve played a lot of not impressive games without leaving a bad review but this one was just too annoying and could *easily* be fixed by slightly increasing the active radius around items. I think I’d be more irritated than 3 stars if I had paid for it. I can’t even imagine trying to play this game with arthritis or any kind of hand motor control or steadiness challenges. Not disability friendly at all.

Cute looking game, but too difficult to play on an Android when you can't zoom in to see what you're working with. No fun, just frustrating.

One of the few games to hold my interest all the way through.

Loved the puzzles and the art, my child and I were fighting over who got to find all the items.

You really need a mouse for this. I tried to struggle through but got too frustrated trying to click things.